The Honky Tonk Harlot came to be when she got bit by the Cowboy Action Shooting bug and joined SASS in 2000.  After attending a monthly cowboy shoot with her favorite Bandito, Taquila Tab, she was hooked on cowboy shooting and needed to find out who she was.  It did not take much thought as to what she wanted as her alias after she watched the movie Bad Girls.  Her favorite character was Cody Zamora The Honky Tonk Harlot who was a lady of the night, an outlaw and pretty much a woman no man would want to double-cross.   

The Honky Tonk Harlot travels the country side with her man, Taquila Tab, and a band of outlaws, the Alamo Kid and Triple T, all commonly known as the DGB’s.  Wherever they go, they are never forgotten and have made many allies who would gladly protect them from those who would hang them.  When it is necessary for her to hide from the law, she will change her appearance from a lady of the evening, commonly seen working in local saloons and occasionally playing a friendly game of poker, to her prim and proper self as a glittery and flashy B-Western lady complete with fringe and sequins.  This character always seems to distract the ever trusting men in any town that she travels to so that her band of outlaws can successfully rob the Bank and continue on their way.

Don’t let her beauty fool you.  Honky Tonk Harlot is armed to the teeth!  She is known to possess two pairs of 4 5/8" barrel stainless steel Ruger "Baby" Vaqueros in .32 caliber.  They are usually loaded with .313" diameter 100 grain round nosed flat point bullets in front of 2.5 grains of Winchester 231 powder and Federal small pistol magnum primers in a .32 Smith & Wesson Starline brass case.  Don’t be deceived by the small caliber.  Her rounds are “dead-on balls accurate!” (It’s an industry term).

The pistols are holstered in a two-tone custom Buscadero gun belt and holster rig fashioned by Dennis Yoder back east in the Pennsylvania Dutch country.

For a rifle she is packing either of two 20" 1892 Cowboy Competition model .38 caliber Marlins worked over by Spur.  Both rifles have Manatee's Grabber sights added to insure accuracy.  The rifles are usually loaded with .357" diameter.147 grain truncated cone bullets in front of 3.2 grains of Vihtavouri N320 powder and Federal small pistol magnum primers.

Her choice of a scattergun is either a Stoeger 20” coach gun side-by-side 12-gauge or a side-by-side Stoeger Uplander 12-gauge with a 26” barrel and a single-trigger.  She wears a Kirkpatrick Leather shotgun belt purloined from Just Wild Bill to hold the Winchester AA shells for these babies.

Cowgirl Credentials:

2002     1^st Place Ladies Traditional      Stagetrail Shootout                 Bloomington, IL
2003     1^st Place Ladies Traditional      Shootout at Cowboy World     West Frankfort, IL
2003     1^st Place Ladies Traditional      Stagetrail Shootout                 Bloomington, IL
2003     2^nd Place Ladies Duelist           The Last Frontier                    Barry, IL
2003     2^nd Place Ladies Traditional     Cowboy Charity Shoot              Arnold, MO
2003     Overall Ladies Champion          Hang ‘Um High                          Oconomowoc, WI
2003    1^st Place Ladies Traditional       Hang ‘Um High                          Oconomowoc, WI
2004    1^st Place Ladies Traditional       Hang ‘Um High                          Oconomowoc, WI
2004    2^nd Place Ladies Traditional      Gunsmoke ’04                           Morristown, MN
2005    4^th Place Ladies Traditional      Randolph County Ruckus           Sparta, IL
2005     1^st Place Ladies Traditional      Hang ‘Um High                          Oconomowoc, WI
2005     2^nd Place Ladies Traditional     Land Run                                  Arcadia, OK
2005     2^nd Place Ladies Traditional     Stagetrail Shootout                 Bloomington, IL
2006    1^st Place Ladies B-Western       Randolph County Ruckus           Sparta, IL
2006    1^st Place Ladies B-Western          Gunsmoke ’06                            Morristown, MN